Welcome to Morning Bop: each AM, we'll be issuing you with a blast of the latest music news headlines and also the best song you have got to begin your day. Monday's #MorningBop is "Distraction" by RAYE because it's the best of the week so make it count! whenever you crank that up, here are seven trending news stories to keep tabs on today: Drake soundtracked the weekend wit..

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FINALLY! Right after months of speculation, bump the entire world has been dying to be able to see is currently totally, unmistakably visible. Yep, Cardi B is pregnant, and her baby bump got a dramatic debut on Saturday Night Live last night (April 7). Hot off the release of her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, Cardi hit the SNL stage for a “Bodak Yellow”/“Bartier Cardi” med..

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On this most blessed New Music Friday — which has already given us a summery collab from Dua Lipa and Calvin Harris, AND a entire album from Cardi B — John Legend has swung through with a certified jam of his own. Or, as he succinctly put in on Twitter, “Your spring bop has arrived.” The singer teamed up with producer BloodPop for “A Good Night,” a disco-infused track abo..

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Halsey's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom album is heavy inspired by Romeo and Juliet, specifically the hyper-romantic, desert-gritted, florally melodramatic 1996 Baz Luhrmann film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Her music videos within the past year have reflected this, serving Benvolio vibes in "Sorry" and creating her own version of the fish-tank scene in "Bad At L..

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Last year, Aminé made it known that he should not be mistaken as an average rapper with his standout album Good For You. The Portland MC has some of the smoothest bars to ever grace your ears and his songs are catchy AF. Today, Aminé formally reported his epic return with a Injury Reserve-assisted single called "Campfire" and the self-directed music video is a total riot. In it, he..

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Some days love can turn you into a person that you barely recognize: it may cause you to do crazy things and act in ways that you wouldn't have dared to before. Getting bit by the passion bug can cause all types of withdrawal, nevertheless that's because it's also pretty astonishing. Swedish pop singer Tove Styrke captures all of those spiraling feelings on her catchy new single "On T..

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A Quiet Place is a harrowing and relentlessly suspenseful tale of survival. However between the jump scares and terrifying alien-monsters, at its heart, the film is about family member — specifically, the Abbott family member, who live on a remote segment of land in total silence. Directed and co-written by John Krasinski, who also stars because the weary Abbott family member patr..

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With her ambitious debut album, Expectations, finally out in the world, Hayley Kiyoko has proven herself a formidable new force in the pop realm — however there’s still more work to be done. The 27-year-old — who’s MTV’s Push: Artist to Watch for the month of April — recently opened up about the, uh, expectations she puts on herself as one of pop’s few openly gay femal..

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The trailer for The First Purge is here, and we are finally getting an origin story for the horrifying night of legalized crime. The fourth film in The Purge franchise follows The Purge: Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year, though it serves as a prequel, allowing us to bear witness to the initial ever purge. We learn that Dr. May Updale (Marisa Tomei, nevertheless without ap..

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Invasion of Privacy is savvy. As a substitute opposed to bloated, Cardi B's debut album is concise. Rather than chase pop trends, the album's best songs reconfigure pop around the Bronx rapper's charisma and raw personality. The assignments greatest achievement is a perplexing dilemma made to look simple. How do you seamlessly distill the essence of Cardi B — the former stripper wi..

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Cardi B's debut album is out today (April 6). The project is called Invasion of Privacy, for good reason. In a short-time Cardi B has gone from reality TV starlet to hip-hop stardom, which brings an avalanche of gossip. Fans and haters alike are obsessed with rumors of Offset's infidelity, brewing beef with Nicki Minaj, and whether or not the Bronx rapper is pregnant. In an interview..

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Ronnie and Mike habitually fought about as much as they fist-pumped, and their tension dates way back to early Jersey Shore history in the form of an oh-so tanned Sam-Ron-Mike love triangle. (Don't believe us? Look here.) So it's no surprise that we were swiftly reminded of their rocky past on tonight's Jersey Shore Family member Vacation soon Following the Inspiration Situation land..

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